The film's open portrayal of sexuality and frequent rude humor, as well as the politically and socially relevant asides, made the film an international hit and a major success with critics.

Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, she is a watershed figure in the history of modern celebrity and, as one of silent film's most important performers and producers, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry.

The film's combined domestic and international box office gross is $ 816, 969, 268, which at one point was the second-highest worldwide gross of all-time.

The film's lack of ' actors ' and ' sets ' makes for a unique view of the everyday world ; one " directed toward the creation of a genuine, international, purely cinematic language, entirely distinct from the language of theatre and literature.

The film's revenue narrowly exceeded its $ 70 million budget in the United States having generated $ 74, 329, 966, however thanks to strong international sales totaling $ 90, 509, 328, Six Days Seven Nights ended its theatrical run with a worldwide total of $ 164, 839, 294.

The film would go on to gross $ 15, 220, 685 in the domestic box office, short of the film's $ 45 million budget, and with an international gross of $ 18, 586, 724, coming up with a worldwide total of $ 33, 807, 409.

The bus was also accompanied by several stiletto heels tricycle floats and drag queens donning big wigs as a tribute to the film's international success and the local Sydney gay community.

The Golden Compass, based on the first novel in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series, is considered a flop in North America due to its $ 180 million budget coupled with New Line Cinema's decision to sell all of the international distribution rights, but the unique circumstances of its international success have made the film's overall success a point of contention ; it was the first film ever to make more than $ 300 million internationally but less than $ 100 million in the United States.

Unlike with many other Hindi productions, the film's makers also complied with international copyright laws and obtained the license to use Roy Orbison's " Oh, Pretty Woman " for an extended musical sequence taking place in the streets in New York.

Following the film's international success, Hallström has worked on American films – What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Cider House Rules, Chocolat and Casanova, among others.

Vadim's film brought Moreau to an international audience, despite the film's less than stellar critical reviews.

Instead of releasing a conventional soundtrack, McDonald compiled a tribute album, asking a number of notable Canadian and international bands to record cover versions of the film's songs.

* The Bee Gees, Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, whose music had been integral to Saturday Night Fever ( released by this film's international distributor, Paramount Pictures ), play Mark, David and Bob Henderson, members of the re-formed Sgt.

The song sung by Johnny and Louise near the film's end, " Take me back to Manchester when it's raining ," was one Leigh used to sing with his friends in Habonim (' the Builders '), the international socialist Jewish youth movement he joined as a schoolboy.

The film's depictions of hell closely followed those in the engravings of Gustave Doré for an edition of The Divine Comedy, which were familiar to an international audience, and employed several special effects.

The film's protagonist, Pinki Sonkar, rose from obscurity in Mirzapur to international fame due to the film.

The film has also won awards at other international film festivals, including the Special Prize award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece, the Special Jury Award at the International Film Festival of Kerala, and the Best Editor award for the film's editor Sreekar Prasad at the Dubai International Film Festival.

An " official " version has been released on DVD by MGM, the film's original distributor and now the ancillary rights holder ( having inherited the film from the Samuel Goldwyn Company, the former owners of the picture ).

However, Oxford Brookes University historian David Nash says the removal of the scene represented " a form of self-censorship " and the Otto sequence " which involved a character representative of extreme forms of Zionism " was cut " in the interests of smoothing the way for the film's distribution in America.

Warner Bros. acquired the rights to the film from the film's financer The Quaker Oats Company in 1977 ( around the same time they bought out Wolper itself ), after Paramount no longer had any interest to own the distribution rights to the film due to the initial box office failure of Willy Wonka.

As chronicled in the 1993 laserdisc Special Edition release and later in the 2000 DVD, the pressure to cut the film's running time stemmed from both distribution concerns and Industrial Light & Magic's then-inability to complete the required sequences.

Upon acquiring the film's distribution rights April 1941, RKO initially continued the roadshow booking policy but presented the film in mono, which was easier to exhibit.

The film's ownership reverted to Murnau's mother Ottilie Plumpe after distribution rights lapsed in the mid 1930s.

The film's full name was later restored in Britain, in February 2006, when Optimum Asia – a division of London-based Optimum Releasing – acquired the UK distribution rights to the Studio Ghibli collection.

When The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was finally completed, David Puttnam, who had originally got the film's distribution rights in the US for Columbia Pictures, had been replaced as CEO of Columbia ; coupled with Gilliam's prior quarrels with major studios over Brazil, the film saw only very limited distribution in the US, earning $ 8 million in US box office.

Because the new technology required a special setup of three projectors and multiple soundtracks, the film's distribution was also revolutionary.

* Lionsgate also now owns US DVD rights to Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now ( under license from Paramount Pictures, which owns US distribution rights on behalf of the film's rights holder, American Zoetrope, Coppola's company ).

Because of the film's huge production costs ( rumoured to be over $ 6, 000, 000 ), its $ 2, 000, 000 advertising campaign ( unheard of at the time ) and Selznick's costly distribution tactics, the film apparently only broke even.

The film's distribution company in North America, Miramax, filed a lawsuit against the MPAA over the X rating.

Until the trial, the film had rarely been seen, and bootleg copies made by assassination investigators working with Garrison led to the film's wider distribution.

" Kneale asserts that movie mogul Dino De Laurentiis, owner of the film's distribution rights, did not care for it and ordered more graphic violence and gore.

Disagreements with the film's distributor Allen Klein however led to both The Holy Mountain and El Topo failing to gain widespread distribution, although both became classics on the underground film circuit.

After the film's premieres, Selznick pulled the film from distribution and re-cut it for general release, bringing it down to 114 minutes, which is currently the length of the film on DVD release.

After the film's publicity in Locarno, the director, Ashutosh Gowarikar said that distributors from Switzerland, Italy, France, Netherlands, North Africa, Finland and Germany were wanting to purchase the distribution rights.

The film's home video release and distribution rights in North America belong to Disney.

Shooting began in January 1998, just months before the film's release, with a production budget estimated at $ 120 –$ 150 million ( although Warner Bros. maintain it cost less than $ 100 million ) and an additional $ 50 million spent on marketing and distribution.

Frank Sinatra was a lead actor in the original film and owned the film's legal distribution rights until his death.

# After the purchase of The Muppets characters by The Walt Disney Company, the film's distribution rights were transferred to Walt Disney Pictures.

Cutbacks at Carolco also forced the studio to make a deal with TriStar over the funding of the Stallone action film Cliffhanger: Carolco would have to sell full distribution rights in North America, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and France to TriStar in exchange for half of the film's budget.

Crew are also separate from producers, those who own a portion of either the film company or the film's intellectual property rights.

There is a brief epilogue sequence in which the fates of the six only known survivors are shown: Sydney underwent surgery on his kneecap injuries and lives as a horticulturist with his son Seymour, Arthur received an OBE for lifelong service to the theatre and retired to the country, Sebastian wrote a book about the film's events and is currently negotiating the film rights.

" A large group of artists, including Martin Scorsese and Alec Baldwin, and scholars signed a legal brief arguing the film's artistic merit ; the Court dismissed the case because the police violated the owners ' Fourth Amendment rights, without reaching the question of whether the film was obscene.

However, he had a tough time securing the rights to Townes Van Zandt's cover of the Rolling Stones ' " Dead Flowers ", which plays over the film's closing credits.

RKO bought the screen rights in June for $ 1, 004 and Hawks briefly worked with Wilde on the film's treatment.

In fact, the movie transforms this girlfriend from Molly Millions into " Jade ", as the film rights to Molly were owned by a company unaffiliated with the film's producers.

The film's TV rights were picked up by A & E IndieFilms after a well-received screening at Sundance.

Screenwriter J. F. Lawton had prepared a script before relations soured over the film's rating, content and merchandising rights and the project was abandoned.

During the several years between the novel's publication and the film's production, Peter Sellers reportedly engaged in a determined quest to obtain the rights to bring the story to the screen and portray its lead character, sending several postcards and letters signed " Chance " to Jerzy Kosinski and Hal Ashby.

* Worldwide rights to Always are now with Universal Pictures, the film's co-producing studio.

At least one critic has suggested that the film's glorification of drug dealers serves to subtly critique the civil rights movement ’ s failure to provide better economic opportunities for black America and that the portrayal of a black community controlled by drug dealers serves to highlight that the initiatives of the civil rights movement were far from fully accomplished.

( Universal Pictures, the film's original distributor, owns only the video rights and the film's copyright ), while owning full rights to the 1965 television version of Cinderella.